Sartoris' Womenfolks

Sartoris and Sutpen design the flag that the regiment they organize carries off to the Civil War, but it is "sewn together out of silk dresses" by "Sartoris' womenfolks" (63). If Faulkner is being consistent with his other Yoknapatawpha fictions, this group cannot include Sartoris' wife, who died a decade before the War, but could include his mother-in-law, Rosa Millard, who lived on his plantation during the War in the Unvanquished stories, and perhaps his two young daughters, who are mentioned but not named in Flags in the Dust.